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19th FRUCT Conference: Call for Participation

The 19th conference of the Open Innovations Association FRUCT will be held in Jyväskylä, Finland, on 7-11 November 2016. Download CFP in PDF.

Overview of FRUCT

FRUCT is the largest regional cooperation framework between academia and industry in form of open innovations. FRUCT conferences are attended by the representatives of 25 FRUCT member universities from Russia, Finland, Denmark, Italy, Ukraine, India, industrial experts from Qt community, EMC, EIT ICT Labs, Nokia Siemens Networks and a number of guests from other companies and universities.

The conference is an R&D forum for the most active students, academic experts, industrial researchers and influential representatives of business and government. The conference invites the world-class academic and industrial researchers to give lectures on the most relevant topics, provides an opportunity for student teams to present progress and results of their R&D projects, meet new interesting people and form new R&D teams. The conference program consists of 3 to 5 intensive (½ or full day) trainings on the most promising technologies, plus 3 days of the main conference.

Traditionally FRUCT conferences pay a lot of attention to development of the Open Source principles and support the corresponding activities and communities. The conference is targeted to discuss the current status and scenarios for future development of Sailfish OS. Also the conference demo session will include a lot of demos done on mobile Linux and Qt. The conference is supported by the local mobile Linux community and we welcome all mobile Linux and Qt developers to attend this event.

FRUCT warmly welcome all university research teams to participate in the conference, present your research and join the FRUCT Program. Thanks to our sponsors, FRUCT and IEEE members, as well as all students and staff-members of Finnish, Russian, Danish, Ukranian and Indian universities can enjoy significant discounts on the registration fee. Please take early registration to the conference

Background and motivation

The distinctive feature of modern IT and Telecommunications industries is in dramatic shortening of the period when technology remains commercially viable. On the one hand, this is due to the competition between key market players that are pushing all manufacturers to accelerate innovations; on the other hand, this is due to technological progress speed up caused by the growing expansion of intellectual resource invested into R&D and design activities. This trend is an important call and challenge for the leading educational and research institutions around the globe. In the FRUCT we believe that it is crucial to combine forces of EU and Russia to follow up the competition in adopting university education to the new industrial trends. The first step is to strength a bridge between Russian and Finnish academic worlds, increase visibility of involved research teams and set direct personal contacts between academic and industrial experts.

All submitted papers will be peer reviewed by the Technical Committee. Please follow provided paper templates: MS Word or LaTeX. Please note the following major changes in the templates: The size of page should be Letter (21.59 cm × 27.94 cm). If you are using Word margins must be: top - 1.9 cm, bottom - 1.6 cm, left - 1.57 cm and right - 1.57 cm. Please note that all Full Paper submissions shall have at least 6 fullpages and the last page cannot contain only Acknowledgments and References (at least some text of the main paper, e.g., part of Conclusions, shall be on page 6).

The list of the conference focus topics is provided below (we welcome you to propose new challenging R&D topics):

Modern network architectures, Emerging wireless technologies, Air interfaces and protocols

Mobile multimedia and video services and solutions

All conference papers and abstracts will be published in FRUCT proceeding. In addition Full papers will be published in IEEE Xplore and submitted for indexing to Scopus and Web of Science. The best papers will be recommended to publication in journals. Proceedings of FRUCT conference Full Papers are included into Scimago Journal Rank.

Please note that Short Papers and Works in Progress are published only in FRUCT proceedings and indexation of such papers by Scopus and Web of Science is not guaranteed.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Chair of the local organizing committee: Timo Hämäläinen

Conference secretary: Alexander Semenov

All general questions about FRUCT conference please send to info<at>fruct.org